The Jesuit New World Order

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

the watchtower cultFor all who are sincerely interested in learningthe history of the Watchtower organization, there is no better place to start than with the founding father of their theological error, Charles Taze Russell. Russell was born on February 16, 1852. His parents (Joseph and Anna) raised him in the Protestant faith while growing up in Pennsylvania. When Russell was just eleven years old, he entered a business partnership with his father and they opened a line of clothing stores. In a few years, young Russell sold the stores and his entrepreneurial spirit moved him in pursuit of another business, the business of religion.

In 1911, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article regarding the legal facts of Russell's separation from his wife. The eagle printed a verbatim record of the following testimony:Charles Taze Russell's life was undeniably saturated with controversy and legal entanglements. Much controversy surrounded the financial benefits of a product endorsed by Russell called "Miracle Wheat". Within early Watchtower publications, "Miracle Wheat" advertisements were printed. This "Miracle Wheat" was said to grow five times the size than all other brands of wheat, and was selling for one dollar per pound. Russell's followers were advised to purchase this wheat and the proceeds would go to the Watchtower. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle publicized facts about Russell's financial venture by depicting Pastor Russell and his Miracle Wheat through a humorous cartoon drawing. Upset by the cartoon, Russell sued the Eagle, asking for $100,000 in damages. Miracle Wheat was proven to not live up to its advertising claims, and Russell lost the suit. As seen above, the Watchtower Society tricks their followers into believing that Russell never made money off the Miracle Wheat and all the proceeds went to the Society. What they fail to mention is the fact that Russell controlled the Watchtower Society and its finances, owning 990 out of 1,000 shares of its stock. Any contributions that were gained from the Miracle Wheat were also given to Russell.The court transcripts serve as transparent evidence that Russell's involvement with Miss Ball was far from innocent.Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses.1975.pg.71

At an early age, Russell began to deviate from the doctrines of orthodox Christianity, in turn disagreeing with many Christian teachings such as Hell and the Trinity. Russell claimed that the doctrine of the Trinity was not rational and he was unable to grasp it. Russell was fascinated with the teachings of the Adventists and their predictions of Christ's second coming. It is obvious that Russell realized the ideology of the second coming of Christ commanded the attention of new recruits. Russell had a planned recipe for success.Early within his ministry, Russell calculated that Jesus was to return visibly in 1874. When the 1874 came and went with no sign of Jesus, Russell then changed his calculations to the date 1914. This is the very date marked by the Great Pyramid measurements. (See Screen 1: 1914) When 1914 came and went with no sign of Jesus, Russell then interpreted Jesus' second coming as an "invisible" return, or in spirit. This was the birth of the "Invisible Burden of Proof" trick still in use by the Watchtower. (See Bag of Tricks)In the efforts to promote his own theology, Russell organized his own Bible class in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. In 1876, the class elected him Pastor of the group. At this time, Russell also became assistant editor for a monthly magazine published out of New York. After two years, Russell left due to controversy surrounding his opinions on the atonement of Christ. In 1879, shortly after his departure, Russell created his own publication "Herald of the Morning", which we all know today as "The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom". Five years later, Russell incorporated his own Society "Zion's Watchtower Tract Society" now known as "The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society".In 1886, Russell published the first of seven publications entitled Studies in the Scriptures: The Divine Plan of the Ages. After Russell's death, the seventh volume (The Finished Mystery) was edited from his original writings and was published in 1917. This seventh volume caused a split within his organization. The smaller group splintered off into what we know today as Millennial Dawn. The larger group splintered off into what we know today as Jehovah's Witnesses.Infidelity Accusations One year after the Watchtower was first published, Russell married Maria Ackley in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Maria took interest in Russell through his teachings; therefore, she assisted him in his theocratic activities. Although the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society progressed under both Russell and his wife, Maria left her husband, and in 1903 she filed for legal separation (separation from bed and board). Much controversy had surrounded the married life of Russell, including allegations of his infidelity.In 1911, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article regarding the legal facts of Russell's separation from his wife. , the Watchtower Society tricks their followers into believing that Russellnever made money off the Miracle Wheat and all the proceeds went to the Society. What they fail to mention is the fact that Russell controlled the Watchtower Society and its finances, owning 990 out of 1,000 shares of its stock. Any contributions that were gained from the Miracle Wheat were also given to Russell Masonic Connections Russell pompously eluded to those within this "divine masonry" (including himself) as the only ones with spiritual insight, and that these things were intended only for them.

Recognizing Russell's view toward Masonry, would it not be surprising that Masonic symbols graced the covers of his publications?The cross and crown symbol shown here is the exact symbol of the Knights Templar logo of Freemasonry. Another Masonic symbol is the Knights of Malta symbol, located on the right hand corner. The Watchtower discontinued the use of these symbols regarding them as "Babylonish". 1975 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses.The Idolatrous Masonic Egyptian symbol of the winged Sun-Disk graced the covers of many early Watchtower publications.This Pagan idolatrous symbol represents the mythological Egyptian god Ra. According to Webster's Universal Unabridged Dictionary: "The sun god, principal god of the ancient Egyptians usually depicted as having the head of a hawk and wearing the solar disk as a crown." Of monumental interest is the Watchtower Society perhaps inadvertently noted that this Egyptian symbol is idolatrous, with no mention of the fact that it graced the covers of previous publications from the Watchtower Society, God's supposed "channel of communication"The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth...Although the Watchtower Society continues to trick their modern day followers into believing that their founding father was a truthful man directed by Jehovah, the real truth is Charles Taze Russell was an outright liar. In 1912, a Pastor from Ontario named Reverend J.J. Ross released an enlightening pamphlet exposing Russell's lack of qualifications as a minister, and his shaky theological teachings. Ross exposed Russell as an inferior scholar who "never attended the higher schools of learning, knows comparatively nothing of philosophy, systematic or historical theology, and is totally ignorant of the dead languages." Out of pure fury, Russell sued Ross for defamatory purposes. Russell was unable to present evidence to deny these words from Ross, leaving only his own statements made under oath. The pamphlet was read during the trial, and Russell denied everything stated within it except for the Miracle Wheat scandal where Russell actually stated that this was "a grain of truth in a sense". Although Russell had sworn under oath to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, the evidence is overwhelming that he did not. As the cross examination continued, Russell further contradicted himself:The above evidence alone proves that God Himself would never have blessed the efforts of a man who claimed to be speaking through him, yet lied under oath.Court Trial Ross vs. Russell

Masonic ConnectionsThe Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth...On Halloween Night..Everything about C.T. Russell seems to be controversial, including the night of his death. During his return from a ministerial tour of the Western and Southwestern United States, Russell was traveling in his train car through Pampa, Texas on Halloween night, October 31, 1916.Pastor Russell died in the train car that Halloween night as the result of multiple ailments. Most notable and strange, Russell requested to be wrapped in a Roman toga.C.T.Russell wrapped in a toga.Charles Taze Russell's grave. Cemetery Lane, outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Russell was buried in Rosemont United Cemetery in the outskirts of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. A nine foot stone pyramid with WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY and a Masonic symbol engraved on its side lies adjacent to his grave stone, serving as mute testimony that Russell was involved with the occult practice of pyramidology:Although the Watchtower Society continues to paint a soft and fuzzy portrayal of their founding father, the truth is Charles Taze Russell was a bona fide false prophet, a womanizer and an outright liar. To a frightening degree, Russell mastered the art of using religious power by making untruthful predictions and capturing the minds of those waiting for Christ's return. Jehovah's Witnesses must realize that their modern theology rests on a bed of spiritual uncertainty and pagan influence, theology that did not come from the God of the Bible.The founders of both "faiths," the Mormons and Jehovah's witnesses, were of the Illuminati bloodline. Charles Taze Russell, who founded the Watchtower Society (Jehovah Witnesses), was of the Illuminati Russell bloodline, which also founded the infamous Skull and Bones Society at Yale University. Charles Taze Russell was a Satanist, a pedophile according to his wife, and a friend of the Rothschilds. Indeed it was the Rothschilds who funded the Jehovah's Witness operation into being, along with other Illuminati bankers, through "contributions" by organizations like the Rothschild-controlled B'nai B'rith. This was proved in a court of law in 1922. One of the key people involved in this was Frank Goldman who later became President of B'nai B'rith. Why would an organization set up (in theory) to help Jewish people and promote the Jewish faith, be funding into existence the Jehovah's Witnesses??? I think the name Rothschild answers the question. Russell was also a high degree Freemason and Knights Templar.

In his book The Watchtower & the Masons Fritz Springmeier says:

"It has always been disconcerting that the Masons are so adept at smokescreens. The leader of the Anti-Masonic political party in the 1830-1840’s turned out to be a Mason. Both C.T. Russell and J. Rutherford printed material that was less than favorable to Freemasonry. And yet I now know that C.T. Russell was a Freemason, a Knights Templar. I also know that Rutherford worked intimately with Freemasons who were his good friends."

The Occult Roots of the Jehovah's Witnesses

Read the eye-opening, Be Wise As Serpents (free online .PDF book), by political prisoner and Christian, Fritz Springmeier.

She wrote the book in 1933 and lists Charles Taze Russell as a Knights Templar Mason on page page 737... http://maritimes.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/06/10008-occult_theocrasy-s-_2.jpg

Read the eye-opening, The Watchtower and the Masons (free online .PDF book), by political prisoner and Christian, Fritz Springmeier.

THE JEHOVAH'S WITNESS A DAUGHTER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

This Satanic society used Catholic Church Sources in order to produce its New World Translation. Westcott and Hort were two Satanists, founders of the Hermes Club and members of famed Russian witch Madam Blavatsky's Theosophy cult.

Dr. Bill Grady said it best in his excellent book, Final Authority...

“Wescott and Hort, were a pair of unsaved liberals whose open Vatican sympathies cast them as the consummate Jesuit plants.”

“To regain her corner on the market, Rome created an elite paramilitary Gestapo unit that would make Himmler’s SS appear like a Sunday school….sparking what historians call, the counter-Reformation. The infamous Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatius De Loyola in 1534, more commonly known as the Jesuits….”

They are the most militant arm of papal power to this day. Their goals were to reclaim those that had left Catholicism and to attack the reliability of the Textus Receptus. They would use ANY METHOD to regain control including confiscation, treachery, torture and assassination. Jesuits will stop at nothing to bring the whole world under subjection to the Vatican. The Jesuits ploy was to entice Protestants back to Rome. They knew they could not bring anyone back into the bondage of Catholicism as long as true believers clung to the pure text. So the Jesuits plotted to replace our Bible with pro-Catholic readings of Jerome’s Vulgate. This would cause the Protestant scholars to believe our text was unreliable, unreadable and not scholarly. Once programmed, the scholars would attack the pure text, all the while, believing they were doing God’s service."

Westcott and Hort took two waste Catholic Sources (the Sinaiticus and the Vaticanus) to produce their waste version of the Bible, Nestle and the New World Translation of the Jehovah's Witnesses, written by Senior Jesuits Jose Maria Bover and A. Merkz, followed Westcott and Hort.

From the Forward of the 1950 version NWT:

"The original writings of the Christian Greek Scriptures, commonly called the New Testament, were inspired. No translation of these Sacred writings into another language, is inspired... The Greek text that we have used as a basis of our NW translation is the widely accepted Westcott and Hort text (1881) by reason of its admitted excellence. But we have also taken in to consideration other texts including that prepared by D. Eberhard Nestle and that compiled by the Spanish Jesuit scholar Jose Maria Bover and that by the other Jesuit scholar A. Merk..."

9. *The Jehovah's Witnesses used Jesuits and Roman Catholic manuscripts to aid in the translation of the New World Translation.

'GREEK TEXT: The Greek Text that we have used as the basis for the New World Translation is the widely accepted Westcott & Hort text (1881), by reason of its acknowledged excellence. But we have also taken into consideration other texts, including those prepared by D. Eberhard Nestle, the Spanish Jesuit scholar Jose Maria Bover, and another Jesuit scholar, A Merck. The UBS text of 1875 and the Nestle-Aland text of 1979 were cinsukted to update the critical apparatus of this edition." The Forward, The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures,Jehovah’s Witnesses are false prophets! I believe they are very sincere, but dead wrong on the truth of Jesus Christ. They are one of the most dangerous false religions in the world today! Why Dangerous? Because they come closer to imitating true Christians than any other religion. They dress like Believers, talk like Believers, go door-to-door like soul-winning Believers, etc. Nevertheless; they are Satan’s workers, full of lies and deceit. There are an estimated 6,000,000 Jehovah Witnesses (JW’s) in the world today, small when compared to the billions of Muslims, Catholics and Buddhists.

We are admonished in I John 4:1, “Beloved, believe NOT every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: BECAUSE MANY FALSE PROPHETS ARE GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD.” Now we must be careful here to “rightly divide” the Word of Truth. I John 4:2 tells us that “Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God.” Nearly every false religion believes a person named Jesus once came in a fleshly body and walked this earth. So this Scripture obviously means more than is read at a casual glance. We must be careful to “Search the Scriptures” as Jesus commanded in John 5:39. I believe this Scripture is referring to Christ’s deity (that God Almighty came in the flesh, Jesus Christ). I never quite understood this verse until I found out that JW’s believe that Michael the Archangel came down to earth and became Jesus Christ. That’s right, JW’s believe that Michael became Jesus! I find no biblical evidence to even remotely support this crazy teaching. Anyone who denies that God Almighty came in the flesh is a liar.

Every false religion one way or another attacks (either by denying or diminishing) the deity of Christ. JW’s will say that Jesus is "a god," but not Almighty God. They will say that Satan himself is also called a “god” and do their best to diminish the deity of Christ, tearing Him down. How silly can they get? Deuteronomy 6:4 proclaims that THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD! We are commanded in the ten commandments (Exodus 20:3), “Thou shalt have NO OTHER GOD’S BEFORE ME.” So either Jesus is Almighty God, or He’s no god at all. There is only one true and living God, all other gods are false gods. The JW’s worship a false God just as do the Muslims, Catholics and so many others. JW’s also deny the bodily resurrection of Christ and His bodily second coming. They deny the rapture and instead believe that Jesus returned (only in Spirit) in the year 1914 to start setting up His kingdom on earth (through the JW’s of course). JW’s don’t believe that the Holy Spirit lives inside (indwells) the true Believer. They deny that Jesus is God or that the Holy Spirit is a person. JW’s like to point out that the word “trinity” isn’t in the Bible. No, but the word “Godhead” is! Colossians 2:8,9 says, “...after CHRIST. FOR IN HIM DWELLETH ALL THE FULNESS OF THE GODHEAD BODILY.” This Scripture (amongst many others) teaches us that there is a Godhead, one God who has manifest Himself to mankind in three distinct persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. What a truth! God the father and God the Holy Spirit walked this earth in the bodily person of God the Son, Jesus Christ. Look back to Colossians 2:2, “...to the acknowledgement of the mystery of GOD, AND OF THE FATHER, AND OF CHRIST.” Even the Word of God tells us it’s a mystery. Some things weren’t meant to be understood, just believed. “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face…” (I Corinthians 13:12).

The problem with so many people is that they refuse to believe in something they can’t understand. They rely on their HEAD for guidance instead of their HEART. II Corinthians 3:14-16 tells us that people’s minds are blinded because of the hardness (veil) upon their heart. If a person will turn in their stubborn, sinful heart to the Lord—they will come to the knowledge of the truth. JW’s prey on those who have to make sense out of everything. Their whole religion is based on “what makes sense." I’ve witnessed to several JW’s and they always say the same thing, “That doesn’t make any sense." It might not make good sense, but IT’S GOOD BIBLE! Why is this such a surprise? Many things don’t make sense: people don’t make sense, the boss doesn’t make sense, government doesn’t make sense, etc. Faith is believing what you cannot understand. “For THE PREACHING OF THE CROSS IS TO THEM THAT PERISH FOOLISHNESS…” (I Corinthians 1:17). The truth is foolishness until you get saved. “...BUT UNTO US WHICH ARE SAVED IT IS THE POWER OF GOD.” You see my friend, you must accept Jesus Christ by heart’s faith as your personal Savior—Nothing will make sense until you do. I Corinthians 2:14 makes it clear that the Bible is foolishness to the unbeliever (the natural man). If you reject Christ, it is only because of the wicked, sinful pride in your heart.

May I also say that there is a great danger that I must warn you about concerning the Jehovah Witnesses. JW’s have become very crafty in their teachings and twisting of the Scriptures. II Peter 3:16 says that Peter had a hard time understanding some of Paul’s epistles, “...in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable WREST (twist), AS THEY DO ALSO THE OTHER SCRIPTURES, UNTO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION.” “JW’s will tell you that they believe in accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior. This is enough to lure many multitudes of unsuspecting people, woefully ignorant of the truth, into their false religion. The problem is that your being led to a false Jesus. The Apostle Paul warns us in II Corinthians 11:3,4 of those who would corrupt us by preaching “ANOTHER JESUS.” There are many false Jesus’ in the world today because of multitudes of woefully ignorant people tampering with God’s Word. Peter said they do it to their own destruction. The Islamic Muslims and Black Muslims don’t believe that Jesus was crucified, nor is He the Savior. The Mormons deny Christ’s deity as do the JW’s. Catholics elevate Mary to deity with Jesus and form a damnable heresy all of their own. Buddhists deny Christ as Savior and God. On and on we could go, false religion and more false religion. If a man persuades you to accept Jesus as Savior but then tells you that Jesus was really Bozo the clown incarnate, would you believe him? Of course not! So why believe the JW’s when they try to tell you that Michael the archangel became Jesus? This is ludicrous and totally unscriptural. Interestingly, JW’s try to hide this ridiculous teaching of theirs from new converts because it exposes JW’s for what they are—Satanic liars.

A young man once asked an older preacher if he believed a person could deny the deity of Christ and still be saved. The old man replied, “YOU WILL BELIEVE IN THE DEITY OF CHRIST IF YOU ARE SAVED!” I accepted Jesus as my Savior, asking Him to forgive me of my sins when I was a teenager. I didn’t know about the deity of Christ or the virgin birth because I simply had not heard those things. When I grew older and heard of these truths, I knew in my heart that they were true. The Holy Spirit of God (who lives within every Believer) bared witness to my spirit that these doctrines were true. I never had a problem believing the deity of Christ, the Godhead, the virgin birth, Jesus' sinless life, etc. Even though some things didn’t make sense, I knew in my heart that they were true.

If you deny that Christ is God, you are not a true Believer. In John 8:24 and 57-59, Jesus claimed that He was the “I AM” of Exodus 3:14 (see also John 5:18 and Philippians 2:6). The Jews began to stone Jesus for what He had claimed, that He was God—Jesus escaped the wicked crowd. John 8:24 reads, “...for IF YE BELIEVE NOT THAT I AM he, ye shall die in your sins.” Notice that the pronoun “he” is in italics. This simply means it was added by the King James translators because they were scholarly enough to let us know it wasn’t in the original (unlike modern translations which have no italics). Jesus said we will die in our sins if we do not believe upon Him as He is! The false Jesus of the Jehovah Witnesses cannot save because it is a mythical character and does not exist in reality! Paul made clear in II Corinthians 11:3,4 that Satan is subtle and wants to deceive us just as he did Eve in Eden. The Devil always misquotes the Bible, rarely avoids it completely. I am always amazed that false prophets will bring up Bible verses until you prove them wrong with the Bible, then they’ll tell you they don’t believe the Bible. If they don’t believe God’s Word, why do they keep quoting it? Because they are of their father, the Devil, who is a master counterfeiter. Only Jesus ever accepted worship from another (Matthew 8:2;9:18), only Jesus ever forgave sin (Mark 2:5), only Jesus had the Holy Spirit without measure (John 3:34).The New World Translation EXPOSED!

The Watchtower Society's Corrupt Bible

By Ben Rast | Contender Ministries | Posted May 15, 2005

Dr. Walter Martin once said that the average Jehovah’s Witness can make a “doctrinal pretzel” out of the average Christian in about 30 seconds. This does not mean Jehovah’s Witnesses are doctrinally correct. There are a couple of reasons this is so. First, the average JW gets exponentially more training in their doctrine than the average Christian gets in orthodox biblical doctrine. This disparity must be corrected by pastors, teachers, and even the individual parishioners, who must take responsibility to educate themselves on sound, biblical doctrine (as well as attacks on that doctrine). One other smaller (but still vitally important) reason is the reliance of Jehovah’s Witnesses on a biased and erroneous translation of the Bible – the New World Translation. If you allow a JW to recite from the NWT without checking the verse in a more accurate translation – such as the NIV, NASB, or KJV – you may be relying on an erroneous translation of a verse. While there are scores of examples of errors in the NWT, this article will focus on some of the primary mistranslations that affect doctrine. We will discuss some issues of Greek and Hebrew grammar, but in a simplified manner.

First, it’s important to look at the issue of translation in the greater context, and the background of the translation of the NWT. The Bible manuscripts exist in three main languages. Most of the Old Testament was written in Hebrew, though portions of Daniel are in Aramaic. The New Testament was written in Koine Greek – the Greek language widely spoken 2000 years ago. This differs from Classical Greek and Modern Greek. Even before the birth of Christ (by two or three hundred years), the Old Testament was translated into Koine Greek. This translation became known as the Septuagint, and is represented by the Roman numerals LXX (seventy). These Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic manuscripts were copied and distributed widely, with the copying and distribution accelerating in later centuries as new forms of script developed which made copying a faster process. At various times, the manuscripts were compiled into full biblical texts. It is from these manuscripts and compilations that the Bibles we read today were translated (for more information on this process, please see “A Primer on Bible Transmission”). Because of this, it stands to reason that advanced training and knowledge in one or more of these languages would be a prerequisite for those who wished to perform translation work on a Bible translation committee. However, this logic and reason was seemingly unimportant to the Watchtower Society and their translation committee for the NWT.

The Watchtower Society first published the New World Translation of the New Testament in 1950. Their complete Bible was published first in 1961, with subsequent revisions published in 1970 and 1984. The Watchtower was always quite secretive about the composition of their translation committee, claiming that credit should be given to God and the truth, rather than the translators. In the October 22, 1989 issue of Awake!, the Watchtower Society’s magazine publication, the society recited the words of their founder Charles T. Russell, “It is the truth rather than its servant that should be honored…” However, former members of the Society revealed the identities of the translation committee members as Frederick W. Franz, Nathan H. Knorr, George D. Gangas, Albert D. Schroeder, Milton G. Henschel, and Karl Klein. A review of their qualifications is disturbing:

Translator Qualifications

Franz, Frederick Probably the only person to actually translate. Franz was a liberal arts student at the University of Cincinnati:

Gangas, George No training in biblical languages. Gangas was a Turkish national who knew Modern Greek. Translated Watchtower publications into Modern Greek.

Henschel, Milton No training in biblical languages.

Klein, Karl No training in biblical languages.

Knorr, Nathan No training in biblical languages

Schroeder, Albert No training in biblical languages. Schroeder majored in mechanical engineering for three years before dropping out.

I don’t want to seem derogatory to Mr. Franz, but his primary training was in Classical Greek, not biblical Greek. He dropped out of a survey course on that topic. He was self-taught in biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, which is commendable, but does it qualify him as a Bible translator? I have a very limited knowledge of New Testament Greek attained through private study (no formal training). Any person can take classes on New Testament Greek or do self-study in this area with the help of books and language dictionaries. However, I would not presume to be qualified to serve on a Bible translation committee. Mr. Franz seemed to lack the fluidity he claimed. In a court of law in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1954, Mr. Franz failed a simple test on his Hebrew language skills. On cross-examination, Franz was asked to translate a particular verse from Genesis into Hebrew. He was unable to do so. The person most capable among his peers to translate the Bible failed a simple test. This calls into question the use of the word “translation” in the New World Translation. As we will see, this “translation” is more likely a paraphrase that was heavily edited to introduce Watchtower bias.

Before we continue, let me make one important note. Some legitimate translations (such as the King James Version) make use of brackets or italics to indicate words inserted for proper flow, but which are not found in the original language manuscripts. In legitimate translations, this tool is only used for proper flow in English, or to indicate words that are found in some ancient manuscripts but not in others. However, you will find the NWT goes further. Not only do the NWT brackets show words included for flow, but also words not found in the manuscripts which, when included, result in a material change of meaning in the verse. You’ll see examples of this below. I will sometimes underline the disputed words or phrases, and a discussion will follow.

Genesis 1:1-2

NWT: In [the] beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth proved to be formless and waste and there was darkness upon the surface of [the] watery deep; and God's active force was moving to and fro over the surface of the waters.

NIV: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

NASB: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

KJV: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

DISCUSSION: The Jehovah’s Witnesses reject the doctrine of the Trinity. They believe in a non-triune God named Jehovah, they believe Jesus is “a god” subordinate to Jehovah, and they reject the notion that the Holy Spirit is a person of the Trinity. They believe that the Holy Spirit is an extension of Jehovah – an “active force” He sends out. The Hebrew words here are ruwach elohim, which are accurately translated as “Spirit of God.” Ruwach can be translated as “wind” also, but when joined in context with God, it is a reference to the Spirit of God (as Strong’s Hebrew Lexicon states, “Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son”). This is the first example of the NWT forcing its doctrinal bias into the text of Scripture.

Zechariah 12:10

NWT: And I will pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of favor and entreaties, and they will certainly look to the One whom they pierced through, and they will certainly wail over Him as in the wailing over an only [son]; and there will be a bitter lamentation over him as when there is bitter lamentation over the firstborn [son].

NIV: And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

NASB: I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

KJV: And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

DISCUSSION: This passage is one of the most phenomenal Messianic prophecies, because God (Yahweh/Jehovah) is speaking in the first person about Him being the one who will be pierced through. Obviously, Jesus fulfilled this prophecy, and the Jehovah’s Witnesses recognize this as well. The implications are clear. Since this was God’s prophecy about what would happen to Him, and Jesus fulfilled this prophecy, then Jesus MUST be God. In fact, in the NWT Zechariah 12:1 indicates these are the “words of Jehovah.”[1] The NWT translators apparently missed the inclusion in this verse of the Hebrew ayth, which Strong’s indicates it is a contraction of a word that gives the meaning of “self.”

Mathew 14:33 (among others)

NWT: Then those in the boat did obeisance to him, saying: “You are really God’s Son.”

NIV: Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, "Truly you are the Son of God."

NASB: And those who were in the boat worshiped Him, saying, "You are certainly God's Son!"

KJV: Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.

DISCUSSION: Throughout the New Testament we find people who worshiped Jesus. Since worship is an action that should be reserved for God, and the Jehovah’s Witnesses deny the deity of Jesus Christ, the NWT had to rectify these verses. The Greek word here is proskuneo. While this word can be translated as doing obeisance (which is defined as giving reverence or homage), the giveaway is the Watchtower’s inconsistency in translating this word. In every instance in the New Testament were proskuneo is given to Jesus Christ, it is translated as doing “obeisance.” Where proskuneo is directed to the Father (“Jehovah” in the NWT), they rightly translate it as “worship” (as in John 4:20).

John 1:1

NWT: In [the] beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.

NIV: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

NASB: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.KJV: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Here, every legitimate translation of the Bible reads the same – the Word (logos) was God (theos). The NWT stands alone in its contention that the Word was a god. This is to reinforce the JW doctrine that Jesus is not Jehovah, but is simply a subordinate god. The last Greek phrase in its entirety is theos en ho logos, where ho is a definite article (the). The Watchtower says that when theos is preceded by the definite article ho, it implies identity or personality. Since the first use of theos in this verse is preceded by ho, it refers to God. The second use of theos is not preceded by ho, making it an indefinite description or quality. This is simply wrong thinking. It’s an important point to make that theos without the definite article ho is used elsewhere in the New Testament in reference to Jehovah God, and is translated appropriately in the NWT (such as in Luke 20:38). They are inconsistent with this argument, positing the “indefinite quality” assertion only in reference to Jesus.

John 8:58

NWT: Jesus said to them: “Most truly I say to YOU, Before Abraham came into existence, I have been.”

DISCUSSION: There are deep doctrinal implications in the words of Jesus here. “I am” speaks to his eternality. It is also a name of God that He divulged to Moses. Exodus 3:14 says, God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.' " The Greek in John 8:58 is ego eimi, where ego means “I” and eimi is a first person singular present indicative, to “exist”. The Septuagint provides ego eimi as the Greek words in Exodus 3:14. The Hebrew word is hayah, which is derived from the same root as Yahweh. The NWT seeks to distance Jesus’ claims to eternality or deity. Thus, it stands alone in its gross mistranslation of this verse.

Acts 20:28

NWT: Pay attention to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the holy spirit has appointed YOU overseers, to shepherd the congregation of God, which he purchased with the blood of his own [Son].

NIV: Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.

NASB: Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

KJV: Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

DISCUSSION: Some more grammatical games and bracket inclusions combine to once again pervert Holy Scripture in order to deny the deity of Jesus Christ. Going through my collection of legitimate Bible translations (and some not-so good translations), I find the NWT stands alone in their mistranslation of this verse. The verse speaks of God purchasing the church “with His own blood”. This is obviously a reference to God the Son, Jesus Christ. What a powerful biblical testimony to the deity of Christ, and what an anathema to the neo-Arian doctrines of the Jehovah’s Witnesses! In order to overcome this, a little mistranslation is made to completely change the meaning and deceive their followers. Not a single extant Greek manuscript contains the word “son”.

Colossians 1:16,17

NWT: because by means of him all [other] things were created in the heavens and upon the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, no matter whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All [other] things have been created through him and for him. Also, he is before all [other] things and by means of him all [other] things were made to exist,

NIV: For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

NASB: For by Him all things were created, {both} in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

KJV: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

DISCUSSION: This is one of those passages that speak clearly toward the deity of Jesus Christ and His role as the Creator of all things. It’s also one of those passages where the Watchtower Society is powerless to form an argument from the Greek, so they play the brackets game. In order to deny the deity of Jesus Christ and to buttress their argument that Jesus was simply the first of God’s creations, they insert the word “other”. The NWT reads that Jesus, as the first created being, created all “other” things. Since the Greek word for “other” is not found in the Greek manuscripts, they bracket the word to indicate that they’re inserting a word that does not belong. This additional word does not help the flow or clarity of the text, but is instead designed to attack the explicit biblical teaching of Christ’s deity and role as Creator. Greek scholar and theologian Robert Reymond referred to the addition of “other” as “sheer theological perversity…”[2] As an example of the deceptive practices of the Watchtower Society, the 1950 version of the NWT did not bracket the word “other,” making it appear that it was part of the Greek Text. Only since 1961, when pressured to do so by Bible scholars, did they add the brackets.

Titus 2:13

NWT: while we wait for the happy hope and glorious manifestation of the great God and of [the] Savior of us, Christ Jesus

NIV: while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ

NASB: looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus

KJV: Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

DISCUSSION: This verse identifies our great God and our Savior Jesus Christ as being one and the same. While an argument can be made that the KJV separates the two much like the NWT (by placing the Greek pronoun hemon, meaning “our,” in an improper location), the wording of the NWT and the additional bracketed definite article go beyond a disputed positioning of the Greek, and presents an inferior and erroneous translation that once again separates Jesus Christ from His deity.

Legitimate scholars in the Biblical languages and manuscripts don’t think much of the NWT. Dr. Bruce Metzger is a well-known scholar whose works are seminary standards. He used the following adjectives when describing the NWT: “a frightful mistranslation,” “erroneous,” “pernicious,” and “reprehensible.”[3] British Bible scholar H.H. Rowley stated that the NWT is “a shining example of how the Bible should not be translated.”[4] He also referred to the NWT as “an insult to the Word of God.”[5] While this list could go on, let me conclude with the words of Dr. William Barclay who stated, “It is abundantly clear that a sect which can translate the New Testament like that is intellectually dishonest.”[6]

It is clear that many are unaware of the dangerous differences found in the New World Translation. We’ve received several emails from people who were confused by a verse shown to them by a Jehovah’s Witness. Often the confusion results from the fact that the verse was like one of those in this article, and when we directed the person to a legitimate translation of that verse, their confusion lifted. When conversing with a Jehovah’s Witness, never let them read a verse from the NWT without verifying the wording in a legitimate translation. As Christians, our faith is supported by the God-breathed Scriptures. We must be on guard against translations that attack our faith through corruption of God’s Word.Jehovah's Witnesses Cult

Jehovah's Witnesses, also known as the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (with headquarters in Brooklyn, New York), was officially founded in 1884 [as the Zion's Watch Tower and Tract Society (originally the Zion's Watch Tower in 1879), officially adopting the name of Jehovah's Witnesses in 1931], by Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916). In 1870, Russell was exposed to the teachings of William Miller, one of the founders of the Second Adventist Movement and acquired an interest in end time prophecies. Russell originally denied the doctrine of Hell, and would go on to reject nearly every other Christian doctrine, as well as add many physically and spiritually dangerous doctrines of his own making. Many of these unique and bizarre teachings were to be found in his six volume series titled, Studies in the Scriptures.

For the year 2000, the Watchtower Society claims a worldwide membership of over six million (about one million U.S.) in more than 91,000 congregations in 235 countries speaking 340 languages, and takes in approximately 300,000 new members each year (288,907 in 2000). According to JW statistics, yearly proselytizing is accomplished via 4.8 million home Bible studies and 1.2 billion hours of witnessing. The JWs field over 500,000 full and part-time missionaries. Instruction and training are provided for all JWs at five meetings a week, held primarily in "Kingdom Halls." Every week, an average of 45 new JW congregations are formed. [In the year 2000 in the United States alone, it was reported that 988,000 Jehovah's Witnesses spent more than 181 million hours in field service (i.e., door-to-door witnessing and Bible studies).]

JW leadership claims its victims by asserting itself to be the sole Christian religion and authority on the earth today, as well as God's mouthpiece or prophet. The Watchtower further disrupts families through its harsh and unbiblical interpretation of "disfellowshipping" and the practice of "shunning." Family members who are former JWs are labeled by Watchtower adherents as "apostates" and prevented from even social contact. Disfellowshipped or disassociated children, parents, and grandparents are kept from any type of communication with active members of the organization. Divorces are common within the sect when one member becomes disillusioned with Watchtower teaching and mind-control.

Not only has the name of this cult been changed time and again, but they also change their doctrines regularly -- between 1917 and 1928, they changed their doctrines 148 times! (Prior to 1931, Jehovah's Witnesses had also gone by the names of Millennial Dawn, People's Pulpit Association, The Brooklyn Tabernacle, and the International Bible Students Association.) Russell died in 1916 and was replaced by the second president, Joseph F. Rutherford. "A process of replacing Russell's writings with Rutherford's began in 1921 with the publication of Rutherford's Harp of God. Between 1921 and 1941, Rutherford was to write twenty books and numerous pamphlets, which would slowly revise the doctrine and structure left him by Russell" (Encyclopedia of American Religions, G. Melton, Vol. 1, p. 485). One of Rutherford's books that caused a great amount of controversy was the seventh volume of the Studies in the Scriptures.

Russell adopted many of his doctrines from the Seventh-Day Adventists, but the JWs began to emphasize door-to-door evangelism and literature distribution after Russell's death and subsequent leadership assumption by Joseph Franklin Rutherford. The JWs have published over ten billion pieces of literature since 1928. Its main periodicals are The Watchtower magazine (circulation of over 20 million in more than 130 languages) and Awake! (about 16 million copies in more than 80 languages), both published semi-monthly.

Historically, the JWs are best known for their practices of refusing: (1) to serve in the military; (2) to salute the flag; (3) to celebrate Christmas, birthdays, or other holidays; and (4) to give or to accept blood transfusions. [Rejecting the medical practices of vaccinations, organ transplants, and blood transfusions, the Watchtower has caused the deaths of many of its members throughout its history. Interestingly, vaccinations and organ transplants have now been acknowledged by the Watchtower as acceptable practices, contradicting their previous doctrinal position.] (Although some of these practices are neither Biblical nor unbiblical in and of themselves, depending upon one's motives and the exact nature of the practice, the reasons the JWs give for them often are unbiblical.)

Below are the highlights of what JWs believe concerning their source of authority, the Godhead, Christ, sin, salvation, heaven and hell, etc.:

1. Source of Authority. JWs claim the Bible as their final authority, but Russell's writings, especially Studies in the Scriptures, are considered "the light of the Scriptures." JWs have their own translation of the Scriptures (New World Translation, published in 1961), which reflects the binding interpretations of the group's leaders. The JWs' New World Translation greatly perverts the Scriptures to avoid placing themselves under the judgment of God (cf. Jn. 1:1; 8:58; I Tim. 2:6; Ac. 10:36; Col. 1:16-17; 2:9-10; etc.). Hence, the leader's interpretation of the Bible, not the Bible itself, is the final authority of JWs. The Watchtower magazine is one of the JWs main sources of doctrine, and is considered authoritative by its members.

2. Trinity. JWs believe that God is not a triune God, but only "Jehovah God" (Let God Be True, pp. 100-101); they teach that Trinitarianism is a belief in three gods, and thereby, Satan-inspired polytheism. Rutherford wrote: "... sincere persons who want to know the true God and serve him find it a bit difficult to love and worship a complicated, freakish-looking, three-headed God. The clergy who inject such ideas will contradict themselves in the very next breath by stating that God made man in his own image; for certainly no one has ever seen a three-headed human creature" (Let God Be True, 2nd ed., pp. 101-102).

3. God the Father. Known as Jehovah, the Watchtower considers Him to be the only true eternal God, the Almighty. They write, "There was, therefore, a time when Jehovah was all alone in universal space" (Let God Be True, p. 25). Being alone, the first creative act of Jehovah was to create His Son.

4. Jesus Christ. Since JWs do not believe in the Trinity, they also do not believe that Jesus is God in the flesh. They add the word "other" four times to Colossians 1:16,17, teaching that Christ was God's first creation, i.e., the reincarnation of Michael the archangel created by Jehovah, rather than the Creator. [The "Watchtower" teaches that Jehovah God created Michael the Archangel before the foundation of the world; Michael was His only begotten son by virtue of the fact that he was the only creature directly created by Jehovah. It was this created Michael who became the JW Jesus (i.e., a denial of the eternality of Christ). JWs say that "Since actual conception took place, it appears that Jehovah God caused an ovum or egg in Mary's womb to become fertile, accomplishing this by the transfer of the life of his first born son (Michael) from the spirit realm to the earth" (Aid to Bible Understanding, p. 920). "Marvelously, Jehovah transferred the life-force and the personality pattern of his first born heavenly son (Michael) to the womb of Mary. God's own active force, his holy spirit, safeguarded the development of the child in Mary's womb so that what was born was a perfect human" (Reasoning, p. 255).] JWs also add an "a" in John 1:1, making the verse read, "the Word was a god" (which in essence, makes the JWs guilty of the same polytheism of which they accuse Trinitarians).

5. Use of Name Jehovah. JWs use the name "Jehovah" only for God (in order to distinguish between God and Jesus Christ), while failing to recognize that Jesus is the fulfillment of "Jehovah" in Isaiah 40:3 and Matthew 3:3. [HJB]

6. Resurrection of Christ . JWs deny the bodily resurrection of Christ through their teaching that the body of Christ was annihilated by God -- not risen -- but rather a new one was created three days after His death. This they call the "resurrection" of Christ. Thus, Jesus was "resurrected" as a "glorious spirit creature" and does not now have a glorified physical body. Instead, they claim Jesus arose spiritually and only "materialized" at various times after His resurrection so He could be seen alive. (Awake!, 7/22/73, p. 4)

7. The Holy Spirit. JWs deny the deity of the third person of the Trinity, as either God or as a person; they claim that the Holy Spirit is only an impersonal "active force of Almighty God which moves His servants to do His will" (Reasoning From the Scriptures, pp. 406-407; The Watchtower, 6/1/54, p. 24). They have written, "But the holy spirit has no personal name. The reason for this is that the holy spirit is not an intelligent person. It is the impersonal, invisible active force that finds its source and reservoir in Jehovah God and that he uses to accomplish his will even at great distances, over light years of space" (Let Your Name Be Sanctified, p. 269).

8. Sin. JWs believe that the first man, Adam, disobeyed Jehovah when tempted by the angel Lucifer, who was jealous of man. As a result of disobedience, Adam and all his descendants lost the right to life and so became liable to death. This liability is applied to temporal death only.

9. Salvation . JWs claim everlasting life is a reward for doing the will of God and carrying out one's dedication -- in other words, salvation is a reward for good works. (JWs are expected to spend five hours per week in door-to-door visitation and witnessing, are responsible for selling twelve subscriptions to The Watchtower magazine each month, and are responsible for conducting a "Bible study" each month in the homes of their converts.) According to JW theology, a person has one of three possible destinies. The Anointed (144,000) will be in heaven to reign with Jehovah God. The rest of the faithful Jehovah's Witnesses (not of the 144,000) will live forever on a paradise Earth. Both of these classifications are determined to a great extent on membership in the Watchtower organization as well as going door-to-door spreading the message of the Watchtower. Those people who are not members of the Watchtower organization will be destroyed by Jehovah God and cease to exist. There is no concept of eternal punishment or hell in Watchtower theology (Let God Be True, pp. 90-95, 289). They also believe that men will have a second chance, after death, to be saved.

10. The Body of Christ. JWs believe that the members of the spiritual Body of Christ, or "Christian Congregation," number only 144,000 (Rev. 7:4-8). Most of those members of Christ's Body are now deceased and are reigning with Jesus in heaven since 1918. (Anybody born after 1936 cannot be in that number.) The remaining members still on earth, approximately 8,000 (out of whom are selected the "Governing Body"), are known as the "Remnant." They are collectively known as Jehovah God's "channel of communication" to men. They are the only ones "born again" and are the only ones who have a hope of going to Heaven. The rest of Jehovah's faithful witnesses only hope to be worthy enough to inherit the Earth, and will never see "Jesus/Michael," nor will they ever go to Heaven. All "so called Christendom" will be destroyed at Armageddon.

11. Soul Sleep. JWs deny the immortality of the soul. They do not believe the soul can exist apart from the body, but that a corpse remains in an unconscious state in the grave waiting for the resurrection. [HJB]

12. Annihilation of the Wicked. JWs teach that the "second death" is annihilation and extinction -- the wicked will cease to exist and will not suffer everlasting torment. They claim that a "doctrine of a burning hell" is "wholly unscriptural," "unreasonable," "contrary to God's love," and "repugnant to justice." [HJB] They claim that "hell" is the grave.

13. Prophecy . The Bible lists six identifying marks of false prophets, any one of which is sufficient for identification: (1) through signs and wonders they lead astray after false gods (Dt. 13:1-4); (2) their prophecies don't come to pass (Dt. 18:20-22); (3) they contradict God's Word (Isa. 8:20); (4) they bear bad fruit (Mt. 7:18-20); (5) men speak well of them (Lk. 6:26); and (6) they deny that Jesus, the one and only Christ, has come once and for all in the flesh (1 Jn. 4:3), thereby denying His sufficiency in all matters of life and godliness (2 Pe. 1:3). Most cults are founded upon false prophecies, which, if pointed out, offer an effective way to open blind eyes and rescue cultists. Russell's false prophecies formed the basis for what became The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and the Jehovah's Witnesses. Russell declared that the Second Coming had taken place invisibly in October 1874, and the Lord was truly present, and that in 1914 the faithful (the 144,000) would be translated to heaven and the wicked destroyed. Armageddon (which began in 1874) would culminate in 1914 with the complete overthrow of earth's rulers and the end of the world. C.T. Russell, still on earth, died in 1916.

In the early 1920s, JWs zealously distributed on the streets and from door to door a book titled Millions Now Living Will Never Die. It was prophesied, "The year 1925 is a date definitely and clearly marked in the Scriptures, even more clearly than that of 1914 ... we may confidently expect that 1925 will mark the return of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the faithful prophets of old ... to the condition of human perfection" ("Millions Now Living Will Never Die," The Watchtower, 7/15/24, p. 89). The JWs even built a house in San Diego where the patriarchs were to live and tried to deed it to King David. (The house was quietly sold in 1954.) In the early 1940s, JWs were declaring that Armageddon, only months away, would end World War II and the defeat of the Nazis would usher in God's rule on earth (The Watchtower, 12/41). Their book, Children, suggested that plans to marry and have children be postponed until after Armageddon. It's been a long wait! Not giving up, they later prophesied that God's millennial kingdom would commence in 1975. Again JWs were told not to engage in any plans for this world, including marriage and having children. Many quit their jobs, sold their homes, and dedicated themselves to going door to door. (Source: 3/97, The Berean Call.) All in all, the Watchtower has predicted the end of the world for 1914, 1918, 1925, 1975, and 1989. Five Myths of Jehovah's Witnesses

(Source: 4Q1993, The DISCERNER.)

Myth #1: The JWs are polytheist, believing in both a big God, Jehovah, and a little God, Jesus Christ.Fact: JWs are absolutely monotheist, believing in Jehovah the Father who is the one true God and in His son, Jesus Christ, who is not God in any way at all.

Myth #2: JWs are pacifist and refuse to pay taxes.Fact: JWs today refer to their stand as neutrality, not pacifism; that is, they are not against the use of force or even killing; rather they seek to maintain strict neutrality in the world's affairs, not taking sides or serving any government. As to paying taxes, the Witnesses do pay them.

Myth #3: JWs will not accept blood for any reason.Fact: While it's true that they will not accept blood transfusions, JWs are allowed to have all the component parts of blood plasma.

Myth #4: The Watchtower Society claims to be an inspired prophet with continuing revelations. Fact: JWs' Governing Body has always enjoyed all the privileges of prophets or apostles without any of the responsibilities. So, technically, though they do not claim to be inspired prophets, in practice, that is just what they are to the millions of JWs around the world. [Due to the resignation of the Governing Body's president and six other board members in October of 2000, JWs formed three new corporations to run its U.S. operations.]

Myth #5: JWs are super-zealots living exemplary Christian lives.Fact: The foremost reason for their super zealot reputation is the active door-to-door ministry. Many are impressed by their willingness to spend so much time in their mission work. But what are their motives? Mainly they are fear and guilt. The tight control the organization holds over its members helps bring about conformity in moral standards. More Documentation of JW Beliefs

1. There is one God in one person (Make Sure of All Things, p. 188).

2. There is no Trinity (Let God be True, pp. 100-101; Make Sure of All Things, p. 386); i.e., Unitarian.

3. The Holy Spirit is a force, not alive (Reasoning from the Scriptures, 1985, pp. 406-407).

20. Blood transfusions are a sin (Reasoning from the Scriptures, 1985, pp. 72-73).

21. Salvation is by faith and what you do (Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. 1, pp. 150, 152).

22. It is possible to lose your salvation (Reasoning from the Scriptures, 1985, pp. 358-359).

23. The universe is billions of years old, though created by a Creator, i.e., theistic evolution (Your will Be Done on Earth, p. 43).

24. Each of the six creative days of God in Genesis 1, was 7,000 years long. Therefore, Man was created toward the end of 42,000 years of earth's preparation (Let God be True, p. 168).

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The Jehovah's Witness "Jesus" -- what JWs confess and what they mean are two totally different things: (Source: 1/94, Mount Carmel Outreach Newsletter.)

(1) "Jesus Christ is the Son of God." -- The first created son of God was known as Michael the Archangel. This angel was recreated as a perfect man on earth and named "Jesus." This Jesus died on a torture stake (not a cross), so that men could work their way into God's Kingdom. This Jesus/Michael now rules over his Kingdom invisibly since 1914. (Since he failed to show up then, to destroy the unfaithful, he was declared by the Watchtower "powers that be," to be invisible!)

(2) "We believe in the second coming of Jesus Christ." -- The angel Michael turned his attention to the affairs of the Earth in 1914 by establishing an invisible heavenly kingdom. This is what is meant by "second coming." He will never return visibly to Earth, but will rule through his "anointed" or "remnant" group of JWs here on Earth.

(3) "Jesus was resurrected." -- God (Jehovah) placed a newly created copy of Jesus' life pattern (or personality) into a newly created Michael the Archangel's spiritual (not physical) body. Since Jesus had been totally annihilated, Jehovah had to recreate Jesus from his memory, and he is now Jesus/Michael in heaven.Jehovah's Witnesses

They Will NOT Tell You:

§ That The Watchtower has consistently and falsely prophesied the end of the world. (1914, 1918, 1925, 1942, and 1975)

§ That since their last false prophecy (the end of the world in 1975) more than 1 million Jehovah's Witnesses have left their church.

§ That in the 1920's The Watchtower built a palace in San Diego, California which they called Beth Sarim, for Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who they prophesied falsely would return from the dead in 1925.

§ That when Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had not returned from the dead The Watchtower president Judge Rutherford moved into the mansion himself.

False Prophecies Stated by Jehovah's Witnesses

§ 1916 - World War I would end in a glorious outcome - Messiah's Kingdom (The Watch Tower reprints, 9/1/16, pg. 5951).

§ 1920 - Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will be resurrected and living on earth by 1925 (Millions Now Living Will Never Die, pp. 89-90).

§ 1940 - Armageddon is very near (The Informant, May 1940, pg. 1).

§ 1941 - Armageddon is surely near (Children, pg. 366).

§ 1968 - The 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ is to start in the Fall of 1975 (Life Everlasting in the Freedom of the Sons of God, pp. 29-30). (1)

§ Stated people would go into darkness without the aid of his Studies.

JOSEPH FRANKLIN RUTHERFORD (1917-1942)

§ Replaced some of Russell's interpretations of theology with his own.

§ Changed the name of the organization from International Bible Students to Jehovah's Witnesses in July 1931.

NATHAN HOMER KNORR (1942-1977)

§ Aided in the production of the Watchtower's own translation of the Bible, which alters Scripture to support false Witness theology.

FREDERICK WILLIAM FRANZ (1977-Present)

Materials Published by The Watchtower Society

§ Watchtower magazine - First edition, in 1879.

§ Awake! magazine - This publication carries subjects of current interest which arouses the reader to the Watchtower's viewpoint.

§ The New World Translation (Bible) - The Watchtower released, starting in 1950, its own translation of the Bible. This version changes Scripture to support false Witness theology. (See NWT John 1:1 and Colossians 1:16,17.)

Major Doctrines of The Jehovah's Witnesses

§ Their Church (The Watchtower) is God's only true Church.

§ The Bible can only be understood by Jehovah's Witnesses.

§ Jesus Christ of the Bible is really only a created being known as Michael the Archangel.

§ Jesus is a god (created) but he is not God the Son.

§ Jesus Christ returned invisibly in 1914.

§ Jesus Christ was not put to death on a cross but died on a stake in the ground.

§ There is no such person as the Holy Spirit.

§ Salvation comes only through being a Jehovah's Witness and doing ALL that the Watchtower asks you to do.

§ Only 144,000 Jehovah's Witnesses will go to Heaven (no one else).

§ If you should hear their message and not become a Jehovah's Witness then God will destroy you and your children at the coming Armageddon.

§ Deny the Trinity.

§ Deny the Personality of the Holy Spirit.

§ Deny the Deity of Jesus Christ.

§ Deny the Bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

§ Deny the Visible Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

§ Deny eternal torment in Hell.

§ Deny Man's Eternal Soul.

§ Deny a Heavenly Home for All Believers.

§ Rejection of Blood Transfusions (They just changed this within the last couple of years).

§ Rejection of Christmas, Easter, Birthdays and other holidays.

§ Rejection of Human government. (1)Colossians 2:9, “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.”

Skeptics of the Word of God often like to point out that the word “Trinity” is not found in the Scriptures; however, the Word “Godhead” most certainly is. We find the “Godhead” mentioned in Acts 17:29, Romans 1:20, and Colossians 2:9. Colossians 2:9 states it all so well... “For in Him [Christ] dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” Literally, the Godhead came to this earth incarnate in the man Christ Jesus. Jesus was 100% man, and 100% God. Jesus did not give up His deity when He came to the earth. According to Hebrews 5:8, Jesus humbled Himself to the Father in Heaven, even being obedient unto death (the crucifixion).

We read in Genesis 1:26, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...” “Us” and “Our” are plural in the Hebrew. Clearly, God has manifest (or revealed) Himself to mankind as a Godhead, i.e., one God (Deuteronomy 6:4), yet three distinct individual Persons. It may not make good math; but, it definitely makes good Bible. I didn't author the Bible, God did. Either you believe that the Bible is God's Word, or you don't. We plainly read in Matthew 28:19-20, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” Here we see all three individual members of the Godhead. Again in Luke 3:22 we see all three individual members of the Godhead, “And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.”

These Scriptures cannot be thrown away. Several false religions, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, deny the Godhead. The argument is that the Trinity originated in pagan ancient Babylon. However, a distinct difference must be noted between the masculine Godhead of the Word of God, and the pagan goddess worship which originated with Nimrod and Semiramis. It was not Christianity that imitated paganism; but paganism Christianity. Furthermore, there is no ancient pagan religion which taught the Biblical doctrine of the Godhead. There are an abundance of Scriptural references to “God the father,” and to the “Son of God.” Clearly, they are two distinguished individuals.

Also, we see the individuality of the Holy Spirit in Luke 12:10, “And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.” Acts 5:32, “And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.” Notice the word “Whom,” not “it.” The Holy Spirit is a Person. In John 16:13 we read, “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.” Six times in John 16:13, the Holy Spirit is referred to as the masculine pronoun “He.”

The Godhead is a mystery. We read of “the mystery of God” in Colossians 2:2. You either believe the Bible is the Word of God, or you don't. By the way, many modern corrupted Bibles have entirely removed the word “Godhead,” such as in the New International Version (NIV). This is a direct attack on Christ's deity. Also, wherever the King James Bible says that someone “worshipped” Jesus, the NIV changes it to “knelt” instead. How deceitful.

The NIV Brutally Attacks Jesus' Deity

I recently received a letter from a man, who quoted me Philippians 2:6 from the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible, claiming that Jesus was not the manifestation of the Godhead. Here's Philippians 2:6 from the King James Bible...

“Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”

Now here's the damnable NIV...

“Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped.”

Do you see why so many people are being deceived by Satan nowadays? Jesus Christ is the manifestation of the Godhead... “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.” Colossians 2:9 so beautifully states... “For in Him [Jesus] dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” If you want to come to the God of the Bible, then you MUST come only through Jesus Christ, Who is the beloved Son of God. The GODHEAD is revealed (or manifest) in the Person, life and earthly ministry of the precious Lord Jesus Christ. “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also” (1st John 2:22,23).

If I had my way, I would burn every New International Version of the Bible in existence! I would burn every copy of Today's International Version as well. I would burn every copy of the corrupted New King James Version. In fact, I would burn every perverted Bible out there, including the Living Bible and Good News for Modern Man. I would burn the Revised Standard Version. God only wrote one book folks! Matthew 4:4 commands us to live by “every word” of the Bible. To do that we must have an “every word” Bible. We have it in the 1611 King James Bible which has been tested and proven trustworthy over the centuries.

The Bible, God's Holy Word, Proclaims the GODHEAD.

This is the doctrine of the Trinity. Critics of the Bible like to point out that the word “Trinity” is not in the Bible. Albeit, the word “Godhead” is in the Bible, i.e., if you have a trustworthy King James Bible. The word Godhead is found in 3 places (Acts 17:29; Romans 1:20 and Colossians 2:9).

Deceitfully, the New International Version [NIV] and all modern corrupt versions of the Bible totally remove the word GODHEAD. This is blatant corruption of the Scriptures.

Deuteronomy 6:4 proclaims that there is one God. Yet the Bible manifests God in 3 Persons of God the Father, God the Son and God the Spirit. Matthew 28:19, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”

The teaching of the Godhead is a fundamental doctrine of the Christian faith.

Acts 17:29, “Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.”

Romans 1:20, “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.”

Colossians 2:9, “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.”FAILED PROPHECIES of the Watchtower Society of Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW's)

JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES CLAIM TO BE PROPHETS

The Watchtower of April 1st, 1972, page 197, had this statement, "So, does Jehovah have a prophet to help them, to warn them of dangers and to declare things to come?...These questions can be answered in the affirmative. Who is this prophet?... This "prophet" was not one man, but was a body of men and women. It was the small group of footstep followers of Jesus Christ, known at that time as International Bible Students. Today they are known as Jehovah’s Christian witnesses...Of course it is easy to say that this group acts as a "prophet" of God. It is another thing to prove it. The only way that this can be done is to review the record. What does it show?"

Since the JW’s claim to be God’s prophet, we are free to put them to the Bible test for a prophet, found in Deuteronomy 18:18-20. Verse 22 of this same chapter says,

"When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD (YHWH), if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken."

Verse 20 plainly says, "that prophet shall die". False prophecy cannot be "explained away" and treated lightly. The Watchtower has invited us to examine their record, and we will! All quotes are from publications of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society and available at headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. Some of these publications may also be found in local Kingdom Hall libraries. Judge this self-proclaimed "prophet" for yourselves!

6,000 years of human history ended in 1873.(The Time is at Hand, p.33)

6,000 years of human history ended in 1972.(The Truth Shall Make You Free, p.152, 1943 edition).

6,000 years of human history ended in 1975. (Awake!, October 8th, 1968, page 15).

ARMAGEDDON PROPHECIES

Armageddon would end in 1914. (The Time is at Hand. page 101, 1911 Edition).

Armageddon would end in 1915. (The Time is At Hand, page 101, 1915 Edition).

Today, JW’s expect Armageddon any minute!

THE RETURN OF CHRIST PROPHECIES

Since Christ failed to show up for any of the Watchtower dates, JW’s altered their teaching to make his coming conveniently "invisible".

Christ returned in 1874. (The Finished Mystery, pages 386, 295, 1917 Edition). The Watchtower publications taught this 1874 date right up to 1929. The "Prophecy" book published in 1929, states on page 65,

"The Scriptural proof is that the second presence of the Lord Jesus Christ began in 1874 A.D."

Christ returned in 1914. (The Truth that Leads to Eternal Life, p.87).

THE MILLENNIUM PROPHECIES

The Millennium began in 1873. (Thy Kingdom Come, page 305).

The Millennium began in 1874. (Finished Mystery, page 386).

PROPHECIES ON THE RESURRECTION

The resurrection would occur in 1878 (They Kingdom Come, page 234).

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the faithful prophets of old would return in 1925. (Millions Now Living Will Never Die, page 89).

The Watchtower Society even published a book telling their followers to add a room onto their houses, an get an undertaker to decorate it. Undertakes, of course, would be looking for employment, since there would be no more deaths in 1926. When the room was completed, Watchtower devotees were to call up Jerusalem, where Abraham would have an office, and request that their parent be "awakened" from death. They would soon appear in the new room! (The Way to Paradise, pages 228,229).

PROPHECIES ON SPACE TRAVEL

"Man cannot by airplane or rockets or other means get above the air envelop which is about our earthly globe..." (The Truth Shall Make You Free, p. 285, 1943 edition.)

THE BOOK OF RUTH

The Book of Ruth is "not prophetical". (Watchtower Reprints IV, p.3110, 12/7/02).

The Book of Ruth "is prophetic". (Preservation", p. 169, 175, 176.)

PROPHECIES ON SODOM and GOMORRAH

Will the men of Sodom be resurrected?

1. Yes....Watchtower 7/1879 page 8.

2. No.....Watchtower 6/1/52 page 338.

3. Yes....Watchtower 8/1/65, page 479.

4. No.....Watchtower 6/1/88, page 31.

5. Yes...Live Forever (old Ed.) page 179.

6. No....Live Forever (new Ed.) page 179.

7. Yes...Insight, vol. 2., page 985.

8. No...Revelation book, page 273.

These changes are more like flashing lights, on and off again. How can they be trusted?

THE "HIGHER POWERS" OF ROMANS 13:1

"Higher Powers" refers to earthly governments. (The Time is at Hand (1889) pg. 81.)

"Higher Powers" refers to Jehovah God and Jesus. (The Truth Shall Make You Free, pg.312).

Refers to the "Remnant of Spiritual Israelite" (the supposed remnant of the 144,000 "heavenly class"). (From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained, page 193).

THE 1914 GENERATION FIASCO

Until October 22nd, 1995, each ‘Awake’ magazine proclaimed,

‘...the Creator’s promise of a peaceful and secure new world before the generation that saw the events of 1914 passes away.’

Beginning with the November 8th, 1995 ‘Awake’, the reference to the 1914 disappeared. Why? Because it is another false prophecy! 1914 plus 80 years (the longest time possible for a ‘generation’ by their own admission) ran out in 1994. This prophecy was attributed to Jehovah as ‘the Creator’s promise’. Therefore this particular false prophecy was done in the name of the Lord, and is subject to His condemnatory judgment on false prophets. There is not escape! Time is the enemy of a false prophet.

IN CONCLUSION

Although the official publication of the Jehovah’s Witnesses claims,

"...Jehovah’s witnesses today make their declaration of the good news of the kingdom under angelic direction and support" according to the Watchtower of April 1, 1972, page 200, they have proved to be an embarrassment to the angels!

Undaunted, the Watchtower of July 1st, 1973, page 402, goes on to claim,

"Consider too, the fact that Jehovah’s organization alone in all the earth is directed by God’s holy spirit or active force."

Obviously the Holy Spirit did not prompt these false prophecies!

Not only does the Bible give us a simple test for prophets, which we considered at the beginning of this tract, namely that their prophecies will fail, but the word of God has more to say about prophecies and prophesying.

The Bible reveals three sources of prophecy. One, it is from God, and inspired by Him. Two, it is from the Devil and inspired by him. Thirdly, prophecies can come out of the "flesh", or out of our "own spirit".

Since the Watchtower society of Jehovah’s witnesses has so many failed prophecies, we know they are not prophesying by God’s direction, and through His Holy Spirit, or by the angels.

This leaves us with two alternatives for the false prophecies of the Watchtower Society. They are from Satan, or they are from "the flesh".

The Watchtower has chosen the latter, claiming that "we all make mistakes" etc. "We have new light". Is this an "out" for them? No, for Jehovah’s witnesses should carefully read Ezekiel, chapter 13. This chapter is a judgment of God on prophets who hope for a fulfillment of their words, after prophesying falsely. Verse 8, says,

"Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lie, therefore, behold, I am against you", declares the Lord God."

The Watchtower Society of Jehovah’s Witnesses is a proven false prophet, and the Lord, by His own decree, is against them. Why would you want to remain in this doomed organization and share in its judgment?

2 comments:

Thank you! Deeply insightful! I only have one question. Is their organization making billions of $$$$''s??? I don't understand what the motivating factor would be?

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